Talking-machine cabinet



A. N. MONTULETJ TALKING MACHINE CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 16, 1920".

Patented Feb. 15,1921.

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Patented Feb, id, 322120 application filed April 1e, 19%. Serial No.t'fg'tt'h To all whom it may concern:

Be it fmown that l, Anonsrn N. Monronnr, a citizen of the United Statesor" America, residin at Lakewood, Ocean county, State of Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in 'lCallring-ll lachineCabinets, of which the following is a lull, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to improvementsin portable cabinets, especiallyrelating to phonographic apparatus, one of the objects of my inventionbeing to provide a cabinet arranged to carry a book of records, a recordplate operating mechanism therefor,

and a tone arm including a sound box, that may be detached troin thecabinet and packed within same, when not in use. Furtion being taken ona line 3-3 in Fig. 2,

the front door being illustrated as closed; and

Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the cabinet, illustrated as closed, themechanical parts being omitted, the section being taken on line 4-t inFig. 3.

My invention comprises a box member 5, open at one end thereof, as at 6,havlng a cover 7 and door 8 to close the open end 6, said door and coverbeing hinged to the box, as at 1O, 10 and 9, 9, respectively. The box 5is divided into (in this instance) three compartments 11, 12 and 13. lopermit of such division, I provide a partltion 14 and a top member 15.The top 15, at one corner of the box, is provided with an openmg 16spanned by a bridge member 17 to support a tone arm and itsappurtenances, indicated by 18. The tone arm 18 carries a pin 19toreleasablv engage an opening 20 in the bridge member 17. Between thetop member 15 and partition 14:, l place a dividing wall 21 whichextends from the rear wall 220i the box to the side wall 23, said wallbeing curved as at 24 to provide space, in.- dicated by 25, which willbe inexcess oi the space 26, between said division wall and side wall 27of the box. The reason for this is to provide sufficient packing spacefor the tone arm 18. When packed, the sound box portlonof the tone armwill be located within space 25 and the arm proper within space 26. (SeeFig. 1.} Within compartment 13 the motor, indicated by 28, for therecord plate 29, will be located. The wall 23 of the be 5 will beprovided with an opening 30 for the insertion of a key to wlnd themotor. The space or compartment 11 is utilized to store an album,indicated by 81, to contain records.

A. further feature of the improvement resides in a pad 32 which iscarried by the cover 7, and secured thereto by-screws 33. The pad 32will be made preferably of felt or other yieldable material. Thefunction of the pad 32 is to cover the needle cups 3& and 35, asindicated in Fig. l, when the cover 7 is closed; hence the needlescannot fall out of the cups while being transported.

When the device is to be used,-the tone arm will be applied to thebridge 1'? and the needle will, of course, contact with a record on theplate 29. When the device is to be transported, the tone arm will beremoved and placed in compartment 12, the album containing the recordbeing stored in compartment 11. The box will be provided with a handle36 by which means it can be carried. To maintain the cover closed, Iprovide same with hooks 37 to engage eyes 38 carried by the sides of thebox. To maintain the, door 8 closed, I provide same with a releasablelatching. device 39 to engage a keeper 40 carried by the cover 7.

Having described my invention, what I claim is In a portable phonograph,a box member,

a horizontal Bartition mum at top mem-' her, a vertica. y disposeddividing wall betweensaid top member and partition, to

' provide a compartment for atone arm and a' compartment for a. motormechanism, the space between said horizontal partition and bottom of thebox being arranged for storin: an album, said vertically disposed di-

